Post * kJYPm — Curious Curator

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TIL that the trench coat was developed by Burberry for WW1 combat

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By TIL that Saddam Hussein had a daughter named Hala of whom no photographs or records exist, and that her current whereabouts are unknown.

Z8KnY TIL Kobe Bryant studied sharks and even dove with them. Now a great white is named after him

kGnd TIL that $2.5 billion dollars of the nearly $9.5 billion dollars of Haiti aid relief money went toward actual aid relief

rN0Gw TIL that, during the Cultural Revolution, ‘mango fever’ swept China after Mao regifted a box of the fruit to a propaganda team. A dentist named Dr. Han Guangdi claimed that the mango looked like little more than a sweet potato. He was found guilty of “malicious slander” and later executed.

Ewap TIL of Kishan Shrikanth, who’s listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to direct a professional feature film, for directing his first film at age 10